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• From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Band, World

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• Courage mounteth with occasion.

  William Shakespeare

  Occasions

  'King John' (1591-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. 82

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• Small to greater matters must give way.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Matter, Way

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.680

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• For Brutus is an honourable man;
  So are they all, all honourable men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Brutus, Honour

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [79]

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• What seest thou else
  In the dark backward and abysm of time?

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Tempest, Gonzalo From Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 49

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• The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Measure For Measure

  1603 Angelo to Isabella. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.92.

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me,
  The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
  Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
  To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
  A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
  Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Sight, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• How many ages hence
  Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
  In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Scene, States

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 111

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• Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Causes

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.498

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• I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Windsor, Dickens

  1597-8 Mistress Page.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 3, sc.2, l.16.

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• Their understanding
  Begins to swell and the approaching tide
  Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
  That now lie foul and muddy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Understanding, Tides

  William Shakespeare (1825). “The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...”, p.63

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• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces, Painting, Enough

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [150]

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments: love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Mind, Wedding Ceremony

  Sonnet 116

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• Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Youth, Wit

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 1, l. 2

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• I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Bloody

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. [221]

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• It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Noble, Likes

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.586, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

  William Shakespeare

  Dignity, Great Ones

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• My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Good Man, Shylock

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.24

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• Though inclination be as sharp as will,
  My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
  And, like a man to double business bound,
  I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
  And both neglect.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Business, Men

  William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine (2004). “Hamlet”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.347

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• It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Beast

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Sir Thomas Hanmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.9

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• Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Good Man, Ridiculous

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.672, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Cursed be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Bones, Cursed

  Epitaph on his tomb at Stratford-on-Avon, supposed to have been chosen by himself.

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• This is the short and the long of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Windsor, Merry

  "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Book by William Shakespeare, 1602.

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• He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Hats

  1598 Beatrice, of Benedick. Much AdoAbout Nothing, act1, sc.1, l.71-3.

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